> Intellectuals, Former Generals and Former Senior Civil Officials call for National Security Committee Meeting to discuss ISPR Tweet; Recommend to urgently make Dawn Leaks Inquiry Report public

Civil-Military RelationsMay 06, 2017Lahore

May 06 : A meeting was convened by PILDAT
on May 5, 2017 at Lahore in the backdrop of some recent developments in Civil
Military Relations in Pakistan.

The participants agreed to release the following
statement:

‘We consider that the tweet of the
DG ISPR that the ‘notification is rejected’ was inappropriate in terms of the
Constitution of Pakistan and recommend that a meeting of the National Security
Committee should be convened urgently to repair the damage to Civil Military
Relations and to the image of the elected government and its valiant Armed Forces.

We also recommend that the full
report of the ‘Dawn Leaks’ Inquiry Committee should be made public immediately
to set at rest all doubts about the culpability of persons responsible in this
matter of national security.’

The meeting was attended and the statement supported
by Lt. Gen. (R) Moinuddin Haider, Former Federal Minister,
Former Governor Sindh and former Corps Commander; Mr. Shahid Hamid,
Senior Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan, Former Governor Punjab and Former
Defence Minister; Dr. Parvez Hassan, Senior Advocate Supreme
Court of Pakistan; Mr. Shahid Malik, Former High Commissioner
of Pakistan to India; Mr. Arif Nizami, Senior Journalist and
Editor-in-Chief, Pakistan Today and Mr. Ahmed Bilal Mehboob,
President PILDAT. Mr. Shafqat Mahmood, MNA and Information
Secretary PTI also attended the meeting, but he abstained from voting on the
statement.

The following members of the PILDAT Dialogue
Group on Civil Military Relations have also endorsed the above statement: